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   by unsignedlong 16y ago

   They do not use their endowment for public benefit, they use it for their own benefit, like other elite, private universities, and get tax exemptions for doing so: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22043995/ The scientific research they do is p
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   by unsignedlong 16y ago

   They let in a small number of charity cases only because if they didn't, they would have already lost their tax exemption. What are we going to do about it, you ask? Recognize that these institutions primarily exit for their own benefit, fo
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   by unsignedlong 16y ago

   I had never before felt bounded by social class, by economics, by mother fucking money. I remember when it hit home: I was taking a graduate seminar on Afghan Politics. After class one day, I struck up conversation with a girl sitting next